“Knowledge is power,” the official said. “How is it set up? What are they insuring? Why is this procedure covered but not that one? All of that is useful information.”

According to the Financial Times, insurance regulators sought help from the cyber security firm CrowdStrike to examine Anthem. When the Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to CrowdStrike for comment on the hack, a representative said that “as a corporate policy, we don’t comment on customers.”

China instituted an initiative called “Healthy China 2020,” with an ambitious goal of providing universal health care coverage to all of China’s 1.3 billion citizens.

As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2014 “China has seen rising discontent over the healthcare system as a result of sky rocketing medical costs and shrinking resources. This has lead to an increased level of anger, and in some cases violence, against doctors and medical staff.”

During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States on Sept. 25, both Jinping and President Barack Obama agreed to cooperate on cyber security issues. Since the pact, however, revelations of China’s digital espionage have become a common occurrence. (RELATED: The U.S. Must Call Out China For Its Aggression.)

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